As you request, I will place my dispute with your decision here.
A minor but germane quibble: I didn’t call him any of those things, nor did I say what you attribute to me. I said that **IF HE WENT FORWARD WITH HIS INTENTIONS **the terms of opprobrium to which you refer would indeed apply to him. I stand by that. I hope he changes his mind. A loss of honor is a hard thing to endure.
Furthermore, as one who has fought actual duels over points of honor, I disagree that “liar” and “coward” are impersonal accusations, while “waste of oxygen” is not. I stand by that as well. If this is justification for you to ban me from the board, then I’ll agree that I don’t belong here.
A re-read of my post might be in order. I trust that I have cooperated with your request that my disagreement with you in this matter not be made part of the original thread.
Wait a minute. You called someone else a chucklehead?
Bitch!
Tell me now. Was it before, or after, you slut? I thought we had an animosity, man! And now you go and call someone else a fucking chucklehead. I just… I don’t know how I’m going to deal with this.
You said: “But if he accepts the benefits of a deal with the United States, knowing beforehand he will refuse to honor his side of the deal, then he is a liar, a coward, and a waste of otherwise-valuable oxygen. He could, under those conditions, burst into flame and I would make it a point not to piss on him.”
Varlos has stated: “I’m going to college right now, and I need my student aid to pay for it.[…] I know that I would almost certainly wish to dodge the draft in the event that one was issued…no one here is likely to change my mind”
It seems to me that Varlos is pretty damn certain when he accepted the aid that he will refuse to honor his side of the deal. The waffling “almost certain” seems to refer to the possibilty that he may change his mind in the future, not that he has never at one point intended to both accept the aid and not accept the draft. You have stated that if he accepted the benefits, knowing beforehand (he can hardly know what he will do until he actually does it, but you specifically state that if he does not intend to honor his side of the bargain when he made it–which it seems clear he does not) that he will refuse to honor it, he is yadda yadda yadda. Since it seems clear to me that Varlos at one point has both accepted the aid and fully intended not to fulfill the contract, I believe your comments apply to him. No one can know what they will do in the future, but his stated intent and clear acceptance of the aid seems to bring the insult home to him.
In addition, I do NOT wish to see exchanges like this in GD:
Poster A: I’m going to burn my draft card pretty soon.
Poster B: If you do that, I’ll consider you a yak-felching weasel.
Poster A: If you consider me a yak-felching weasel, I’ll consider you a grade-A assfucking buttmunch.
Poster B: If you consider me a grade-A assfucking buttmunch, I’ll consider you a scrotum-licking shitsucking cockbiter.
Poster A: If you consider me a scrotum-licking shitsucking cockbiter, I’ll consider you a pigfucking cumslurping syphilitic cunt.
Mod: Ok, you two, out of here.
Posters: But those only went into effect if [poster A/B] sent ahead with his intentions!
…Yet according to your apparent criteria, that would all be OK. Um, NO. Putting “if you do” in front of “something a poster has clearly stated they will do” and then following it up with various insulting comments does not magically make those insulting comments disappear. Put “if” in front of something that the poster has NOT clearly stated they will do, and you might get away with it.
Not impersonal, but statements that might possibly be useful within the context of a debate to aid an argument. Example:
Poster A: I know for a fact that A, B, C.
Poster B: A is false (cite). B is false. (cite) I can prove that you knew they were both false. (cite) Why should we believe what you say about C?
“You’re lying” or “you’re chicken” can be both true and useful in an argument, though inflammatory. “You are worthless” has no real use in an argument, and seems to be a purely personal dig.
Damnit, nobody ever lets me hack people up anymore. If there’s a SDMB Duel/Party, I wanna know about it. I have this cool Conan the Barbarian type sword I’ve been itching to see how well it performs in battle.
btw- do we get to keep the hacked off body parts? just wondering.
Hey Screwtape, why waste time with this churlish bickering - challenge Gaudere to a duel.
Oh, and to add to scylla’s questions (and you really must elaborate on your “as one who has fought actual duels over points of honor” comment) in this age of sexual equality, could you challenge Gaudere to a duel?
I dunno, man…if I saw Screwtape hit Gaudere in the face with a kid glove whilst shouting “Forsooth! Lassie!” (huh…that really does NOT sound terribly imposing, does it?), chivalry would demand that I challenge him to a duel.
Hey Uke, I got the dueling fer honor thing covered…already went head to head with DITWD [sub](well head to his rapidly receding tail, the yeller bastard!)[/sub]
I was just waiting to see how she would respond…still pretty restrained although I am pretty sure her theoretical exchange in no way was an allegory as to how she really feels
